Martin Langhoff escribió:

> As I have a Pg install where the locale is already en_US.UTF-8, and
> the database already exists, is there a DB-scoped way of controlling
> the locale?

Not really.

> Is there a better way? In this specific install I can create the
> additional index. However, this needs a general fix for Moodle, which
> has an abstract  DB schema handling (we support MySQL, Pg, MSSQL,
> Oracle) and the whole thing of figuring out what the locale is and
> whether to add magical additional indexes just for Pg makes me look
> like a loony.

You are right and Eloy is wrong on that discussion.  There is not
anything the DB can do to use the regular index if the locale is not C
for LIKE queries.  There are good reasons for this.  There's not much
option beyond creating the pattern_ops index.

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